The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 52

Take your boat and go; but leave this boy with me--I can find work for him, though something tells me he is quick and cunning, and will do me ill.'

Who acts: you, I, something, boy · What happens: take, go, leave, find, tell, be · To what, where: boat, boy, work, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, something, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boat	nmod:poss
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 leave	cc
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	parataxis
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	conj
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tells	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 tells	mark
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 find	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tells	iobj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 quick	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 quick	cop
27	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tells	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cunning	cc
29	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 quick	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 do	cc
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	iobj
35	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 do	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	your boat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	infinitive			this boy	with me	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient with i=Theme
4	find	can	I	work		for boy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent work=Theme for he=Beneficiary
5	tell speech: assert	present	something		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is	present	boy			quick property	tree rules
7	be		boy not said here				tree rules
8	do	future	you not said here		me	ill property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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